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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Deployed troops eat Christmas dinner.

Christmas Dinner

Marines and sailors assigned Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, eat Christmas dinner at Forward Operating Base Now Zad in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Dec. 25, 2012.

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